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...Stung by lessons learned at Altamira and Lascaux, where initial unrestricted access to the caves obliterated archaeological clues and led to the rapid deterioration of artwork, the French Culture Ministry has put the Chauvet cave off limits to all but a handful of experts and installed video surveillance cameras and police guards at the entrance. "Our goal," says Baghain, "is to keep the cave in this virgin state so that research can, in theory, continue indefinitely...
...criticism directed her way elicits cringing new attempts to make nice. After her '92 cookie gaffe, in which she asserted she'd had better things to do, as a Governor's wife, than bake cookies for Chelsea and Bill, she took to compensatory cookie making on an industrial scale. Stung by Whitewater allegations, she did penance by giving a press conference in girlish pink. What can we expect if the Gingrich remark provokes yet another make-over? A floor-length Mother Hubbard gown of handloomed calico...
...what was Jesse's crime against humanity? A few words. Pointed words. Honest words. words that stung only because they smacked so painfully of the truth...
Gund Professor of Economics Richard E. Caves seems slightly stung that the Nobel Prize in Economics has not been awarded to a Harvard professor since...
...Stung by the Israel-Jordan peace agreement, which acknowledges Jordan's "special role" as custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, P.L.O. < Chairman Yasser Arafat said talks on the city's future should begin immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin refused and reaffirmed his position that Jerusalem must remain united under Israeli sovereignty...